Usually means: Almost, very nearly, practically close.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word well-nigh:

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  1. well-nigh: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. well-nigh: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. well-nigh: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. well-nigh, well-nigh: Collins English Dictionary
  5. well-nigh: Vocabulary.com
  6. Well-nigh, well-nigh: Wordnik
  7. well-nigh: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. well-nigh: Wiktionary
  9. well-nigh: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. well-nigh: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. well-nigh: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. well-nigh: Dictionary.com
  13. well-nigh: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. well-nigh: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Well-nigh: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. well-nigh: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. well-nigh: Rhymezone
  18. Well-nigh: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. well-nigh: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. well-nigh: Free Dictionary
  21. well-nigh: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. well-nigh: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. well-nigh: Encyclopedia

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adverb:  Almost, nearly.

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